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005.1999.06 (1999)

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The album debuted at number one on the South Korean album chart with more than 324,000 copies sold in its first month, and later newspaper reports put total sales above 550,000.

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Album story

Overview

• 005.1999.06: fifth studio album by South Korean singer and actress Uhm Jung-hwa
• First released by Universal Music Korea on 17 June 1999
• Explores the dance genre, from 1970s-style disco to house dance and beyond
• Spawned four hit singles and earned Uhm Golden Disk Awards
• Described as the most commercially successful album of Uhm's career to date

Background

• Released in the run-up to summer, and most of its tracks are fast-beat songs
• Uhm said in an interview that she wanted to move beyond her existing sexy-singer image and show varied colours through several genres
• Two songs, 'I Don't Know' and 'Festival', topped the charts

Recording

• Worked with various South Korean producers and songwriters, including Kim Chang-hwan, Joo Young-hoon and Jung Jae-hyung
• Other contributors named in the Korean sources include Yoon Sang, Yoon Il-sang and Cho Gyu-man
• Ballad-oriented writers Yoon Sang and Cho Gyu-man also delivered fast-beat tracks on this album
• 'Long Afternoon' was composed by Jung Jae-hyung, with lyrics by Uhm, and is a duet between the two
• Park Jun-hyung of god returned as a rapper on Cho Gyu-man's 'You in My Heart'

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ko.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Uhm Jung-hwa is a South Korean singer, actress and dancer, born August 17, 1969, in Jecheon, Chungcheongbuk-do.
• She began her career in 1989 as a member of the 12th class of the MBC Chorus.
• She officially debuted as a singer in 1993 with the studio album Sorrowful Secret.

Career

• Known as the "Korean Madonna" and considered one of the most influential women in Korean entertainment.
• Mid-1990s hits included "Sad Expectation", "A Love Only Heaven Permits", "Rose of Betrayal" and "Tell Me".
• Invitation (1998) introduced a mature image and became one of the year's best-selling albums; "Poison" and "Invitation" became signature songs.
• Turned to acting from 2001, winning Best Actress at the 39th Baeksang Arts Awards for Marriage Is a Crazy Thing (2002).
• Experimented with electronica on Self Control (2004) and funk on Prestige (2006), which won Best Dance and Electronic Album at the 4th Korean Music Awards.
• Achieved a commercial resurgence in 2008 with "D.I.S.C.O".
• Released The Cloud Dream of the Nine in 2017 after a nearly decade-long hiatus from music.
• In 2020 joined Lee Hyori, Jessi and Hwasa in the group Refund Sisters.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Munhwa Ilbo's Yang Seong-hui said Uhm now holds an indisputable position in the dance music industry after hits such as 'Poison', 'Invitation' and 'I Don't Know'
• Hankook Ilbo's Park Eun-joo criticised the use of 'too much sex-appeal', citing an anonymous source
• The same Hankook Ilbo piece also noted that Uhm's performances were positively received by the public

Reappraisal

• Magazine T's 2008 analysis 'Uhm Jung-hwa Study' described this period as remarkable, with every song becoming the year's biggest hit
• The same piece noted that her hair and clothes became trends, and that imitation water-filled headphones were sold on street stalls

Records

• Debuted at number one on the South Korean album chart
• More than 324,000 copies sold in the first month
• December 1999 reports put total sales above 550,000, the sixth best-selling album of the year
• 'Molla' sold more than 320,000 copies within a month of release, per Korean sources
• Won numerous major music awards in South Korea, including Golden Disk Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ko.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title single 'Molla' was a house dance song written with Kim Chang-hwan, though Park Mi-kyung was originally expected to sing it.
• Uhm was reportedly given vocal lessons by singer Kim Tae-young in an effort to earn a song from Kim Chang-hwan.
• 'Festival' was first written by Joo Young-hoon for the group Country Kokko, who turned it down, and Uhm initially did not want to sing it.
• Uhm's music video for 'Molla' won Best Music Video at the m.net Victoria awards (m.net 영상음악대상).
• Uhm said that in the early weeks of 'Molla' she felt the album had completely failed, since it barely sold for two weeks.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ja.wikipedia.org

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